I've been increasingly working with Mermaid diagrams over the past few years and annoyed by the lack of a Mac app for previewing Mermaid diagrams locally.

That's why I'm releasing MarkChart:

👀 Effortlessly preview Mermaid diagrams
🔄 Live updates while editing
🖼️ Screenshots with one click
💻 Generate PNGs from the Terminal
🌚 Dark Mode support

MarkChart is available on the Mac App Store
👉 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/markchart-mermaid-preview/id6475648822

Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS Sonoma and answer a few questions:

📈 What is the total count of binaries within macOS Sonoma?
🛠 Which programming languages are used to develop these apps?
🧐 How many apps are written with Swift?
🤓 How many apps are using Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI versus AppKit?
🔒 Is the Secure Enclave using Swift?

👉 https://blog.timac.org/2023/1128-state-of-appkit-catalyst-swift-swiftui-mac/

Now that iOS 17 is available, let’s analyze its built-in apps to answer a few questions:

📈 How many binaries are in iOS 17?
🛠 Which programming languages are used to develop these apps?
🧐 How many apps are written with Swift?
🤓 What is the percentage of apps using SwiftUI versus UIKit?
🔒 Is the Secure Enclave using Swift?

👉 https://blog.timac.org/2023/1019-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios17/

In addition to adding Dark mode support to my 15-year-old blog, I posted a new article about creating charts in Markdown using Apache ECharts

👉 https://blog.timac.org/2023/0627-charts-in-markdown-using-apache-echarts/